{"id":54,"date":"2011-08-09T13:30:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T10:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jacob.zikusooka.com\/?p=54"},"modified":"2014-08-21T15:44:14","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T12:44:14","slug":"seasons-of-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacob.zikusooka.com\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Seasons Change"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Sunrise<\/a>

Sunrise over Awoja Bridge – Soroti, Uganda.<\/p><\/div>\n

This morning my mind drifted to The Pursuit of Happyness<\/em>, a Will Smith classic I watched close to 5 years ago. When he’s running, he announces, “This part of my life, I call ‘running'”; when he’s riding the bus, he cleverly intones, “This part of my life is called ‘riding the bus.'” His voice-over laments, “Maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and never have.” “When I’d get an A on a test, I’d get this good feeling about all the things I could be \u2013 and I never became any of them.”<\/p>\n

What a poignant reminder of the passing of time, I thought!<\/p>\n

Scripture (Daniel 2:20,21) says, “Praise be to the name of God for ever ever; wisdom and power are his. He changes times and seasons\u2026\u201d In John 2:4, Jesus said “…My time has not yet come.” A few chapters later (17:1), He prays self assuredly, “Father, the time has come..”<\/p>\n

THE LOWDOWN: We serve a God of Seasons. God determines when a Season begins. God determines when a Season ends. Every Season has a PURPOSE.<\/p>\n

Looking retrospectively at my life, it’s been a seemingly unpredictable cycle of Death, Growth, Pruning and Full Bloom. Jesus said that unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it brings forth much fruit (John 12:24). And continuing with the same allegory (Chapter 15:1-5), He goes on to say, \u201cI am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit He prunes (cleans) so that it will be even more fruitful…if you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit.”<\/p>\n

And so go the changing seasons – A process (or is it procedure?!) of Dying to Self (TO REALLY LIVE!), Brokenness and then some Respite in the sun. And when am “going through”, what does the LORD require of me? TO ABIDE. TO BE STILL AND KNOW THAT HE IS GOD. To recall, like the hymn goes, that in His time He makes all things beautiful. In His time. To remember that even when I cannot see His hand, I can trust His heart.<\/p>\n

THE SUM TOTAL: I can’t skip a Season. Every Season is important.<\/p>\n

What Season are you in?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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